Showing posts with label Foursquare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foursquare. Show all posts

27 Sept 2010

Foursquare's iPhone 2.0 app creates your to-do list

This Mashable article has full the full story, but Foursquare are trying to make it much easier for their service to be facilitator of your "to-do list" in the real world.

As part of this. venue owners or any content producers who talk about venues can embed a button into their own websites that will "add this to my Foursquare to-do list". The result is that when you either check-in to that venue, or somewhere nearby, the new app will remind you that you wanted to visit the venue, or try the goats-cheese pizza there, or the cocktail special...

16 Jun 2010

Stickybits


First Foursquare brought real world locations into the social media environment, now Stickybits does the same for any object. Powered by the RedLaser scanning app, users can append digital content to any real world object with a barcode or print and affix their own barcodes to any real world object. For instance, a barcode on your business card could contain a link to your LinkedIn profile or C.V. or a birthday card barcaode could have a video message from the sender attached. You can scan barcodes on any real world object and append digital content which raises interesting questions over intellectual copyright and has potential for a new style of cyber-squatting - how long before they charge brands to "own" their barcodes?

Interesting stuff.